BIG BOYS BLUES - DAY 1- FILMING

My friend Tony is shooting a short film for a film festival. I decided to volunteer to help him on set. Now I haven't read a script or anything. Infact I didn't even know what the movie was about until I rocked up to the set.

The short film is scheduled to be shot over 2 days on the weekend at Parriewood High School. The film is similar to the TV show Heartbreak High that was on TV many years ago. The 7 minute film deals with racism in high school.

So I rock up to Parriewood High School at 7am on a saturday morning half asleep to except a film set similar to our HI haha Man was I wrong. I walk in to spot professional cameras, lights, microphones, a cater and make up artists. WOW very impressive.

Check out the super doper camera:



The first scene that we are filming is in the school's basketball hall. The scene involves a few of the characters playing basketball as one of the girls comes storming in to inform the lead character that his girlfriend is getting it on with someone else in the school halls.

The character storms off the court in search of the prick who is attempting to steal his girlfriend.

Above - Basketball Scene in BBB

Even though the above scene was less than a minute, it took half a day to film. By the time the actors arrived, got their makeup done, had rehearsals, the director blocked and shot the scene, it was time to break for lunch.

After lunch our next scene was in the hallway of a school. The scene involved one of the girls smashing a Coke bottle over a guy's head. Don't worry we didn't actually use a real Coke bottle. You can buy sugar coated bottles from Fox Studios that look like Coke bottles. Basically when you smash it, sugar slatters everywhere.

This is where it got tricked. We had a case of sugar bottles. We did a take, realised we wanted another. Hence out comes the vaccum cleaner to suck up the sugar from the ground. We continued this process until we believed we had the correct shot.

Above - Smashing the sugar bottle over the head

These two scene took a whole day. By the time we finished up it was like 7pm and we were all exhausted. I was on my feet all day. The only thing I was looking forward to was going home and retiring to bed.

Day 2 tomorrow...